Machine for felting hat-bodies



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MACHINE FOR FBLTING HAT BODIES. No. 320,391. Patentedgune 16, 1885.

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MACHINE FOR FELTING HAT BODIES.

No. 320,391. Patented June 16, 1885.

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AUGUSTE PELISSE, OF NEWVARK, NENV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN T. \VARING, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

MACHiNE FOR FELTING HAT-BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,391, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed April 6, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, AUeUs'rE PELISSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful 1mprovement in Machines for Felting Hat-Bodies and other Articles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates more especially to that class of felting-m achines which is the subject of Letters Patent of John T. \Varing, No. 227,329, dated May at, 1880, and in which the felting is performed by and between the felting-rollers arranged to form an open cavityin which the hats or other articles to be felted are subjected to a rolling motion by the rotation of said rollers. In the use of such machines for most kinds of work it is found desirable to so space the said rollers apart that the roll of hat-bodies or other articles to be felted may enter so far in between them that it may be very considerably flattened, the process progressing more rapidly and being done more effectively when the roll is in that form.

Theprincipal object of my present invention is to allow the roll to enter and pass so far between the so-spaeed rollers as to assume the fiat form and to retain it there against any tendeney of the rollers to carry it entirely through the space between them 5 and to this end the invention consists, principally,in the combination, with such felting-rollers, of a roller of smaller diameter arranged behind them, and operated and operating, as hereinafter described, to serve as a stop to prevent the roll from passing too far between or beyond the felting-rollers.

The invention further consists in certain means of adjusting the felting-rollers at various distances apart in a machine of the class hereinabove mentioned, and in certain other details to be hereinafter particularly described.

Figure l is a side elevation of a felting-machine which contains the whole of this invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the machine, taken at right angles to Fig. 2 in the plane indicated by the line a 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken at right angles to Fig. 2 in the plane indicated by the line 3 y in Fig. 2, looking toward the nearest side frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The machine represented is a double machine, containing three felting-rollers, A A A arranged to form two pairs with two open trough-like felting-cavities, a a, between them, as described and claimed in the hereinabove mentioned Letters Patent, and havingthe said rollers arranged with their axes in an inclined plane, as described and claimed in the application of John T. \Varing for Letters Patent, No. 151,132, filed December 26, 1881.

B B are the side frames of the machine, in which are the journal-boxes I) 1) b for the shafts of said felting-rollers, the journal-boxes b of the middle roller, A ,bein g fixed, and those, b D of the upper and lower rollers being both adjustable in plumber-blocks c c on the side frames in such manner as to provide for adjusting and varying the spacing apart of the rollers and the width of the feltingcavities a a, which are formed by the said spacing apart, as will be hereinafter fully described.

0 O are tlre stop-rollers, which constitute the principal feature of my invention,arranged behind the feltingcavities a a, the stop-roller 0 being between the felting rollers A A, and the stop-roller 0 between the felting-rollers A A These stoprollers, which are best shown in Fig. 3, are of very much smaller diameter than the feltin g-rollers-say about 011eeighth of the diameter of the latter-so that they may occupy positions in which the front parts of their peripheries are a very little behind a plane passing through the axes of all the felting-rollers, while their peripheries are only just out of contact with the latter rollers. These may be. of round, square, or other suitable transverse sectional form, and either smooth or lagged. The roller 0 has its journals fitted to rotate in bearings in the upper end of two arms, d d, which are titted to swing on the shaft 0 of the middle feltingroller, A, and the stop-roller C has its journals similarly fitted to bearings in the upper ends of two arms, (1 d which are fitted to swing on the shaft 0 of the lower felting-roller, A The object of thus supporting the rollers in swinging arms is to provide for their adjust- 5 j Y loaded by a weight,f, that the said pulley G always keeps the belt Ftight.

be presnished at the other end with apulley, E, to re- I ceive the belt F, for driving the other feltingrollers,.A A which belt runs on pulleys E E on the said rollers and over three idler-' pulleys G G G (see Fig. 1,) of which G G" are arranged to rotate on fixed studs secured to the machine-framing, and G is arranged;

to rotate on a stud, f, carried by a lever, H, which is fulcrumed to the framing at g, and so one A, so that the roller which forms the lower and inwardly-moving surface of either of the trough-like felting-cavities aa will always move faster than that which forms the outwardly-moving surface, and so tend to carry the roll S of hat-bodies or other articles ers O C are furnished with pulleys j j, to re ceive driving-belts I I, which run on and receive motion from pulleys J J 2 on the shafts of the felting-rollers A A The felting-roll- 3 ers and the stop-rollers all run in the same direction but the peripherical velocity of the stop-rollers is more rapid than that of either of the felting-rollers,

ency to loosen th c said roll, and thereby prevent it from bein g rolled too tight by the feltin g-rollers. The adjustment of the stop-rollers O G be-' tween the felting-rollers requires to be varied to correspond with the adjustment of the spacing between the rollers a, narrower spacing requiring the stop-rollers to be set farther forward or inward between the felting-rollers, the stop-roller being always so adjusted that the roll S of hat-bodies or other articles to be felted will be allowed to enter far shown in Fig. ment of the spacing of the felting-rollers and the corresponding adjustment of the stoprollers are provided for and efi'ected in the following manner; The journal-boxes 1) I) of the upper and lower felting rollers, A: A are connected by rods h h with two simishaft has fast to it a hand-wheel, k by which it may be turned to produce the operation of The pulleys are so proportioned that the lower roller, A rotates faster than the middle one, A, and the middle one faster than the top in order that it may, by 1 its friction on the exterior of the roll S of hats or articles to be felted, havea slight tendf enough between the felting-rollers to be flattened, as 3. The simultaneous adjustthepinions on the toothed sector, and so move the lever K in one direction or the other to make it move both the journal-boxes b b of the upper and lower felting-rollers toward or from the fixed journal-box I) of the middle felting roller, and so contract or widen the cavities a a between the felting-rollers. The levers K have connected with them two rods, 1, which work in guides m, which are pivoted to the framing, but otherwise fixed; and these rods l'have firmly but adjustably secured to them arms a, to each of which is pivoted a guide, '0, through which passes one of the arms d which contain the bearings for the upper stop-roller, O. The shaft 0 ofthe lower felting-roller,A ,has loosely fitted to it ateach side ofthe machine one of two levers, p, which are connected by rods q with the levers K,

hereinabove described, so that thesaid levers 1? move with the levers K. The said levers 10 have connected with them rods 1, similar to those, Z, hereinabove described, the said rods l 1 working in guides m, pivoted to the framing, and having firmly but adjustably secured to them arms a, to which are pivoted guides 0, through which pass the'arms d, which contain the bearings for the lower stoproller, (3. The arms a and a are of such length that their respective rods 1 and l and arms d and d are always at a slight inclination to each other, as shown in Fig. 4, so that by the upward and downward movement of the rods 1 and l and their arms n n and guides 0 0 with the levers K and p the guides o o are caused to operate with a wedge-like action on the arms d and d which contain the bearings for the stop-rollers, and so to'move the said rollers in or out between the feltingrollers.

By the above-described system of connections and gearing between the bearings of the journals of the stop-rollers and the levers K, which adjust the bearings of the upper and lower felting-rollers, when the felting-rollers are brought nearer together the stop-rollers are moved farther in between them, and vice versa.

The felting-rollers in a machine constructed according to this invention may have astraight or aconeave longitudinal profile, and the longitudinal profile of the stop-rollers should be the counterpart of the longitudinal profile of the felting-rollers. For instance, if the felting-rollers have a straight profile the stop-rollers would also be straight; but if the felting-rollers have a concave longitudinal profile the stop rollers will have a convex longitudinal profile, as shown in Fig. 2, to allow the latter rollers to come in as close as practicable to the feltingrollers throughout theirvwhole length.

The felting-rollers may have their periphcries either smooth or lagged or furnished with protuberances like the rollers ofany of thepreviously-known roller felting-machines.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with two felting-rollers having between them an open trough-like cavity, of a stop-roller of smaller diameter than the said felting-rollers, arranged between them, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. The combination, with two felting-rollers having between them an open trough-like cavity, of an interposed stop-roller of smaller diameter than the said feltin g-rollers, and havin g a higher peripherical velocity, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination, with two feltingrollers having between them an open trough-like felting-cavity, of an interposed stop-roller of smaller diameter than said felting-rollers, and adjustable inward and outward between the said felting-rollers, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

4. The combination, with two felting-rollers having between them an open trough-like cavity, and having unequal peripherical velocities, of an interposed stop-roller, substantially as herein described.

5. The combination, with two felting-rollers of curved longitudinal profile having between them an open, troughlike cavity, of an interposed stop-roller the longitudinal profile of which is the counterpart of the curved longitudinal profile of the feltingrollers, subs tautially as herein described.

6. The combination, with two felting-rollers having between them an open, trough-like cavity, and having their axes so arranged in an inclined plane that the lower of said rollers projects in front of the upper one, of a stoproller arranged between and behind the said felting-rollers, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

7. The combination, with two felting-rollers having between them an open, trough-like cavity, and having bearings which are adjustable to vary the width of said cavity, and a stoproller interposed between the said felting'rollers, of connections between said bearings and said stop-roller, whereby the adjustment of the said bearings nearer to each other brings the stop-roller farther in between the felting-rollers, substantially as herein described.

8. The combination of the middle feltingroller, A, the lever K,'fulcrumed on the journals of the said roller, the movable journalboXes I) b of the upper and lower felting-rollers, and the connections h h between the said lever and the said journal-boxes, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

9. The combination of the felting-rollers A A A the levers K, fulerumed on the journals of the middle roller, A, the movable journalboxes 1) if, of the upper and lower rollers A AF, the arms 61 (1 carrying the stop-rollers O O, the rods l l, connected with said levers K, the guides m m, for said arms, the arms n n, and the guides 0 0, for the arms d 01 attached to said arms l l, for producing the simultaneous adjustment of the upper and lower felting-rollers and the stop-rollers, substantially as herein described.

AUGUSTE PELISSE.

\Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, MATTHEW POLLOOK. 

